UConn and Louisville will tip off the 2025-26 season at Ramstein Air Rotten in Germany, showing in the first-ever ladies’s college basketball matchup of the Armed Forces Classic.

The game, which turned into as soon as announced Thursday, will happen Nov. 4, 2025, and air on ESPN.

“We would favor to attain as grand as we per chance can, both in my map and team-wise, to enhance our armed forces,” UConn coach Geno Auriemma acknowledged in an announcement. “I’m ecstatic we’re getting the opportunity to hotfoot international and own a range of our defense force participants inquire us play in particular person. I do realize it could per chance be an expertise of a lifetime for all americans in our program.”

“We are extraordinarily thankful to be selected for the 2025 Armed Forces Classic,” Louisville coach Jeff Walz acknowledged in an announcement. “This could be a unbelievable expertise for our gamers and crew to play in front of about a of our nation’s heroes international. We ogle ahead to the opportunity to showcase ladies’s basketball on a world stage.”

Outdated iterations of the Armed Forces Classic, which debuted in 2012, took jam in South Korea, Puerto Rico, Japan, Hawaii, Texas, Alaska and San Diego.

Ramstein previously hosted the event in 2012 (UConn men vs. Michigan Deliver) and 2017 (Texas A&M vs. West Virginia).

The matchup is basically the most contemporary instance of premier ladies’s college basketball capabilities opening their seasons with extremely anticipated world games. Earlier this week USC–Ole Streak over and UCLA-Louisville faced off in Oui-Play in Paris.

UConn and Louisville opened their 2024-25 campaigns ranked No. 2 and No. 17 in the country, respectively.